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As of last night, I now have the outline of a cypress tree etched into my back.

It didn't hurt nearly as much as I expected. I wasn't quite expecting to sometimes feel the buzz of the tattoo gun all the way down in my fingers, that was weird. The most painful part was actually getting a cramp in my back. (For those of you that don't know, I tend to flinch or jump when someone touches my back. Not really a good thing when someone's scratching ink into your skin. I did let the artist know about that ahead of time. It took a lot not to flinch sometimes, but instead, I would kinda tense up the muscle where he was working. I also know that people say not to do that because it'll make it hurt worse, but it actually hurt less when I tensed the muscle. Anyway, The only problem was that at one point, I think he got a little too close to a nerve right at the same time as I was tensing up the muscle on the one side of my back and it suddenly cramped up. I had to ask him to stop, and it took a minute or two for the cramp to release, but once it did, I was fine.)

I wish I knew what music they were playing while I was in the shop. It wasn't the music that I would have picked if it were my choice, but there was one song towards the end that I don't really remember anything about except for this really driving guitar intro that was amazing.

When all was said and done, I was a little bit out of it when I got up from the table, in a bit of a fog.

I didn't have time to grab anyhting for dinner between work and going to get the work done, so when I got home, I decided that I really wanted Philly rolls and spring rolls from XS...so I went over there and got some for dinner and while I was there, I found a flyer for a dance studio that I've never heard of offering evening dance classes. Bellydance on monday evenings and Afro-Modern fusion on Thursdays staring on the 22nd.

Well, I do believe I said that I wanted to start taking bellydance classes again this year. And that I wanted to try to do that by February. $12 drop-in per class, $89 for a 10-class pass or $115 for access to all classes in the session (that includes the African-modern, the bellydance, plus one other class that I wouldn't be able to make it to because I wouldn't be off work on time.

Unfortunately, I would not be able to fork over the chunk of money required for a full-session or 10-class card, but I could do $24/week for two classes easily. If I cut out some unneeded spending, it wouldn't even make an impact in my overall spending. Actually...I think I could maybe cut out more unneeded spending than the cost of the classes, which would be even better....


Edit: Next tattoo appointment is 2/11 to do the text. Found out that Dave does work every other Sunday so I'm not totaly at the mercy of work schedule...